Memories can be deceptive, but in my lifetime of reading the Tribune, I can't recall a precedent for today's editorial page and its highly relevant "agenda" items, most of which have been staple items for discussion at NAC.
Explanatory excerpts and topic headings are listed below; follow the link to read the editorial board's thoughts in their entirety.
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OUR OPINION: Tribune offers 2009 agenda for Floyd County
In 2009, we think the following events need to be pushed to the top of residents’ and elected officials’ agendas. They are listed in no particular order. Please spend some time with them and share your opinions with us and those we elected to represent us in public office.
Let’s get the master plan approved to show we’re serious.
Address the lack of space issue downtown — specifically the jail and the City-County Building.
Give area police and fire departments what they need to protect us.
The New Albany City Council needs to stop dragging its feet and redraw the districts to be legally compliant.
Break ground for a new wastewater treatment plant in the county.
Stop using economic development income tax funds to reduce sewer rates.
Continue cleaning up downtown and promoting it.
New Albany needs to cure its water woes — no public swimming pool and a lackluster riverfront.
Fix up our ‘front yards.’
Stop talking about correcting downtown New Albany traffic patterns and do it in 2009.
We hope you agree that these items merit your attention. Floyd County is filled with wonderful people with excellent ideas. We think if residents, elected officials and organizations work together as a team and stay focused on moving forward, we can succeed. But what do you think?
Our Opinion editorials are consensus viewpoints of the editorial board of The (New Albany) Tribune.
EDITORIAL BOARD >> Steve Kozarovich, publisher & executive editor; Chris Morris, region editor; Mary Tuttle, advertising manager.
Kudos to the Tribune for publishing a very sensible agenda.
ReplyDeleteAll the more baffling, then, that the City Council seems unable to produce an agenda of its own.
I would note also that waiting for the 2010 census would delay fair voting even more than what might be apparent. Results of that census won't be available until 2011, within a year of a municipal election, barring the Council from acting until after yet another unconstitutional vote was complete in 2012.
And that's exactly what Gahan, Coffey, Price, Benedetti, and McLaughlin, based on their voting records, want.
I'm really proud of the Tribune. That is quite a list. It had to have taken a lot of time to put it together.
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